10 Wrestlers You Won't Believe Got The Better Of Vince McMahon

10. Mercedes Martinez

In an era in which women are deemed worthless, having had the temerity to age - and are subsequently fired with a trash bag bestowed as a parting gift - Mercedes Martinez played the system.

Somehow.

Martinez, a great 40 year-old talent, debuted on the main roster as part of the atrocious RETRIBUTION stable as 'Retaliation'.

RETRIBUTION were formed when some WWE middle management pig looked at his telly in the soul-destroying summer of 2020 and wondered just who the f*ck those little f*ckers were runnin' around. He hated them, and in one of the dumbest lightbulb moments in wrestling history, thought it made for good heat.

'Retaliation'.

'Retaliation' carries a very similar definition to 'Retribution'. This was a bit like calling a member of the Four Horsemen 'Horse Man'. The entire bullsh*t ordeal - the group stopped destroying property the very second the expensive ThunderDome was introduced, WWE signed these insurgents to a deal, Reckoning won a match via night terrors - was dumb on top of dumb.

Martinez knew it, and requested to go back to NXT. Miraculously, the pitch was accepted. She wasn't punishment booked. She wasn't given a bin.

She simply went back down to the Capitol Wrestling Center and killed it in a featured upper midcard role.